You can't be serious. We're talking about adding a short message telling the player whether they are making progress or not. Games are at their very essence feedback machines, you press a button and the game tells you something based on what you pressed. When it doesn't do that, it sours the experience, which is really dumb considering how easy of a fix it should be.
And I don't give a crap if there are other areas of improvement (you used 90% of the game as an example, too). It doesn't invalidate criticism for that one specific bit. If you think it's really so hard and time consuming to expose a variable to the player then I suggest you step off your high horse because you clearly you don't know what you are talking about.
Actually i' m as serious as far as topics regarding entertainment go. And you still don't get it. What you are asking for is already in the game. Looks like i really need to explain it in detail :
At the beginning of the massage quest the quest log says " Perhaps you can find a massage course on your laptop ". The laptop is in your room. You go there and click on the icon. It says "Purchase " for 200 bucks. You do, and the buying icon vanishes and a "Study " icon appears.
You study and the icon disappears. What now, huh ? Maybe...just maybe you can make use of your brains and check the quest log for feedback ? Why do you think there is a quest log ? To ignore it ?
What does the quest log say ( under " Amanda", default name ) ? It says : " Perhaps after you' ve completed the massage course you can give your mom a proper
massage " . Do you know the meaning of the word " completed " ? Studying generally implies that you take a look at a book or attend a course more than once. As everyone who went at least to school should know.
There is also this book in the game, remember ? The occult book. What does the quest log say once you' ve aquired it ? It says : " You have a big spooky demonic book, read it dummy. And not just once".
At later stages of the demon quest it says : " Hint : continue to study and you' ll make more progress ".
You can study the demon book only once per day, then the icon vanishes. Exactly like the study icon of the massage course.
If you need to study this book more than once in order to make progress why don't you get it that you also need to take a course more than once to complete it ?
How did you study the massage course the first time ? And where ? On Mars ? In your local library ?
It is the most logical thing that you go back to your room and c-o-m-p-l-e-t-e the course there where you started it, once per day.
This has nothing to do with invalidating criticism. What you are asking for is totally obsolete no matter how long or short or easy it may be to implement it. Of course i am more interested in other areas of the game improved, and compared to your request it is probably more than 90 %. The only one on a high horse here is you since you try to teach me about game mechanics, i' m just stating facts as shown above.
Let' s leave it at that for now. Have a nice day.
